🎼 OPUS NO. 35
#R-73237-RFT is an ordinary world. A contemporary, everyday Earth with friends, family, 40-hour work weeks with no paid overtime, weekends of lazing around drinking beers on the living room floor. It is peaceful— as much as living in a capitalist-infested society can be. It is all you have, really, and you make the best of things, because what else is there?
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#R-73237-RFT was an ordinary world.
In the year 2XXX, a series of gaping fissures split open in major cities across the globe. What comes pouring out are monsters that had only been seen in fantasy or sci-fi novels. But this time, the blood isn’t on screen. It’s real. It’s yours.
Nineteen minutes and twenty-three seconds later, the rifts inexplicably close back up. But the damage is done.
CAESURA DAMAGE REPORT 2,202,163,217 injured. 1,972,543,003 dead.
In just 1,163 seconds, humanity’s future was irrevocably shattered.
23 years later
#R-73237-RFT is an ordinary world. A post-apocalyptic, everyday Earth with friends, family, 40-hour work weeks with no paid overtime, Saturdays of lazing around drinking beers on the living room floor, and Sundays of visiting the mass grave in the heart of the city, paying your respects to those who have perished to the Rifts.
Fissures have continued to spontaneously manifest and bleed monsters, but hope was never lost. The chaos of the first eruption, now referred to as the Caesura, came hand in hand with the arrival of The Conductor System. Resembling the status window of a video game, The Conductor granted certain humans unique abilities to aid them in battle; they are later coined as Resonators. Like a weed through concrete, humanity persists. With the newly Resonated utilizing their abilities as well as the strange materials found within Rifts that bear seemingly magical properties, civilization is able to rebuild itself in record time. It is all we have, really; we must make the best of it.
